Talented Parkview senior the latest to pick Bears

11:35 PM,
Mar. 22, 2013

Parkview's Landan Ruff will play his college ball at Missouri State.

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The Parkview pipeline served the then-Southwest Missouri State baseball program well in the early 1980s.

Now, three decades after landing two Vikings who helped lift the MSU program to new heights, the baseball Bears are again consistently tapping the Springfield school for more talent.

The same program that gave new coach Keith Guttin future Mid-Continent Conference Player of the Year Howard Bell and, previously, future major leaguer Scott Bailes, is again helping stock the Bears roster. ...